Breastfeeding Resources
Fact Sheets
A Mother's 10 Steps to Successful Breastfeeding: Even if your hospital isn't Baby Friendly - (English / Spanish / German / French) - This fact sheet from the Los Angeles Breastfeeding Task Force offers 10 Steps to becoming a "Baby-Friendly Hospital," as well as information for moms on how to breastfeed successfully.
Breastfeeding Facts for Fathers (Platypus Media) - Link here for an abridged Spanish version
Breastfeeding in the Workplace - Senator Jeff Merkley answers a MomRising question about new legislation passed in health reform to facilitate breastfeeding in the workplace.
Resource Organizations
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
American Academy of Pediatrics: Breastfeeding Initiatives
American Academy of Pediatrics - Breastfeeding Resources
Baby Friendly USA - Implementing UNICEF/WHO Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in the U.S.
Chicago Region Breastfeeding Task Force
Chicago Area Breastfeeding Coalition
Healthy Children's Center for Breastfeeding
Illinois State Breastfeeding Task Force
InJoy Birth and Parenting Education
National Conference of State Legislatures: 50 State Summary of Breastfeeding Laws
UNICEF - The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative
United States Breastfeeding Committee
U.S. HHS Office on Women's Health - information and breastfeeding helpline
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action - Protects, Promotes and Supports Breastfeeding Worldwide
Research on Baby-Friendly Hospitals
Evidence Based Breast-Feeding Promotion: The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (Rafael Perez-Escamilla)
Exploring the impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on trends in exclusive breastfeeding
Breastfeeding Rates in US Baby-Friendly Hospitals: Results of a National Survey
Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative Improves Breastfeeding Initiation Rates in a US Hospital Setting
Sustained Breastfeeding Rates at a US Baby-Friendly Hospital
Breastfeeding and Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative: more important and with more evidence than ever
Breastfeeding Combats Obesity
Does breastfeeding reduce the risk of pediatric overweight?
Communities Putting Prevention to Work Initiatives (CDC)
The CDC recognizes breastfeeding promotion and support as viable strategies for obesity prevention.
Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States
This report contains 24 recommended obesity prevention strategies focusing on environmental and policy level change initiatives that can be implemented by local governments and school districts to promote healthy eating and active living, and includes breastfeeding promotion.
To assist local governments, states, and policy makers implement the CDC recommended obesity prevention strategies and report on the associated measurements a detailed Implementation and Measurement Guide was also developed. The guide includes measurement data protocols, a listing of useful resources, and examples of communities that successfully implemented each obesity prevention strategy.
First Lady Michelle Obama - Let's Move Campaign
World Breastfeeding Week - 2010 Statements of Support
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
World Health Organization (WHO)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
American Academy of Pediatrics (Endorsement of WHO/UNICEF Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding)
State of Illinois - Proclamation of July 8, 2010
